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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:07:31 +0800
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:38:04PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:37:28AM +0900, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > 
> > Here is the updated changelog:
> > 
> >         writeback: Fix lock imbalance in writeback_sb_inodes()
> > 
> >         Fix bug introduced by 169ebd90.  We have to have wb_list_lock locked when
> >         restarting writeback loop after having waited for inode writeback.
> > 
> >         Bug description by Ted Tso:
> >           
> >           I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
> >           under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):
> 
> Not that it matters that much, but I typo'ed the description; sorry
> about that.  The KVM only had 1024k of memory....

1MB memory? How do you manage to boot it? Recently I tried running a
big fat kernel (with almost everything built in) that can easily OOM
(at boot time, before swapon) even given 256MB memory...

Thanks,
Fengguang